[Dovecot] What is your dovecot setup?

[Bill Cole]

At 12:42 AM -0400 9/18/07, Benjamin R. Haskell  imposed structure on 
a stream of electrons, yielding:
>On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Bill Cole wrote:
>
>>At 2:10 AM +0100 9/18/07, Timothy Murphy  imposed structure on a 
>>stream of electrons, yielding:
>>
>>>I cannot see the Family folder from my IMAPS client.
>>>Also it complains of the lack of .INBOX.directory
>>>("Could Not Determine Resource Status").
>>
>>A concrete problem description, at last.
>>
>>1. Is .Family a proper Maildir++ directory? i.e. does it have a 
>>maildirfolder file in it?  Missing that would cause Dovecot to not 
>>use it.
>
>That's not true (in dovecot-1.0.3, at least). I have no problems 
>accessing any of the subfolders under my ~/Maildir/, but:
>
>$ find ~/Maildir -name cur | wc -l
>18
>$ find ~/Maildir -name maildirfolder | wc -l
>5
>
>i.e. Only 5 of 18 subfolders have that file. I think the 
>dovecot-created folders have it, whereas the procmail-created 
>folders do not. And, as a test:
>
>$ find ~/Maildir -name maildirfolder -exec rm '{}' \;
>
>had no ill effect on the visibility of my folders. That said, I also 
>don't use quotas of any kind, so I can't speak as to its effects on 
>the '++' of Maildir++.

That's interesting.

I'm still using 1.0.0 and had a folder that did not appear to my 
clients until I added the maildirfolder file.

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Bill Cole                                  
bill at scconsult.com